drb - Job:26-31

drb@Job:26:1 @Then Job answered, and said:

drb@Job:26:2 @Whose helper art thou? is it of him that is weak? and dost thou hold up the arm of him that has no strength?

drb@Job:26:3 @To whom hast thou given counsel? perhaps to him that hath no wisdom, and thou hast shewn thy very great prudence.

drb@Job:26:4 @Whom hast thou desired to teach? was it not him that made life?

drb@Job:26:5 @Behold the giants groan under the waters, and they that dwell with them.

drb@Job:26:6 @Hell is naked before him, and there is no covering for destruction.

drb@Job:26:7 @He stretched out the north over the empty space, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.

drb@Job:26:8 @He bindeth up the waters in his clouds, so that they break not out and fall down together.

drb@Job:26:9 @He withholdeth the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud over it.

drb@Job:26:10 @He hath set bounds about the waters, till light and darkness come to an end.

drb@Job:26:11 @The pillars of heaven tremble, and dread at his beck

drb@Job:26:12 @By his power the seas are suddenly gathered together, and his wisdom has struck the proud one.

drb@Job:26:13 @His spirit hath adorned the heavens, and his obstetric hand brought forth the winding serpent.

drb@Job:26:14 @Lo, these things are said in part of his ways: and seeing we have heard scarce a little drop of his word, who shall be able to behold the thunder of his greatness?

drb@Job:27:1 @Job also added, taking up his parable, and said:

drb@Job:27:2 @As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment, and the Almighty, who hath brought my soul to bitterness,

drb@Job:27:3 @As long as breath remaineth in me, and the spirit of God in my nostrils,

drb@Job:27:4 @My lips shall not speak iniquity, neither shall my tongue contrive lying.

drb@Job:27:5 @God forbid that I should judge you to be just: till I die I will not depart from my innocence.

drb@Job:27:6 @My justification, which I have begun to hold, I will not forsake: for my heart doth not reprehend me in all my life.

drb@Job:27:7 @Let my enemy be as the ungodly, and my adversary as the wicked one.

drb@Job:27:8 @For what is the hope of the hypocrite if through covetousness he take by violence, and God deliver not his soul?

drb@Job:27:9 @Will God hear his cry, when distress shall come upon him?

drb@Job:27:10 @Or can he delight himself in the Almighty, and call upon God at all times?

drb@Job:27:11 @I will teach you by the hand of God, what the Almighty hath, and I will not conceal it.

drb@Job:27:12 @Behold you all know it, and why do you speak vain things without cause?

drb@Job:27:13 @This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the inheritance of the violent, which they shall receive of the Almighty

drb@Job:27:14 @If his sons be multiplied, they shall be for the sword, and his grandsons shall not be filled with bread.

drb@Job:27:15 @They that shall remain of him, shall be buried in death, and his widows shall not weep.

drb@Job:27:16 @If he shall heap together silver as earth, and prepare raiment as clay,

drb@Job:27:17 @He shall prepare indeed, but the just man shall be clothed with it: and the innocent shall divide the silver.

drb@Job:27:18 @He hath built his house as a moth, and as a keeper he hath made a booth.

drb@Job:27:19 @The rich man when he shall sleep shall take away nothing with him: he shall open his eyes and find nothing.

drb@Job:27:20 @Poverty like water shall take hold on him, a tempest shall oppress him in the night.

drb@Job:27:21 @A burning wind shall take him up, and carry him away, and as a whirlwind shall snatch him from his place.

drb@Job:27:22 @And he shall cast upon him, and shall not spare: out of his hand he would willingly flee.

drb@Job:27:23 @He shall clasp his hands upon him, and shall hiss at him, beholding his place.

drb@Job:28:1 @Silver hath beginnings of its veins, and gold hath a place wherein it is melted.

drb@Job:28:2 @Iron is taken out of the earth, and stone melted with heat is turned into brass.

drb@Job:28:3 @He hath set a time for darkness, and the end of all things he considereth, the stone also that is in the dark and the shadow of death.

drb@Job:28:4 @The flood divideth from the people that are on their journey, those whom the food of the needy man hath forgotten, and who cannot be come at.

drb@Job:28:5 @The land, out of which bread grew in its place, hath been overturned with fire.

drb@Job:28:6 @The stones of it are the place of sapphires, and the clods of it are gold.

drb@Job:28:7 @The bird hath not known the path, neither hath the eye of the vulture beheld it.

drb@Job:28:8 @The children of the merchants have not trodden it, neither hath the lioness passed by it.

drb@Job:28:9 @He hath stretched forth his hand to the flint, he hath overturned mountains from the roots.

drb@Job:28:10 @In the rocks he hath cut out rivers, and his eye hath seen every precious thing.

drb@Job:28:11 @The depths also of rivers he hath searched, and hidden things he hath brought forth to light.

drb@Job:28:12 @But where is wisdom to be found, and where is the place of understanding?

drb@Job:28:13 @Man knoweth not the price thereof, neither is it found in the land of them that live in delights.

drb@Job:28:14 @The depth saith: It is not in me: and the sea saith: It is not with me.

drb@Job:28:15 @The finest gold shall not purchase it, neither shall silver be weighed in exchange for it

drb@Job:28:16 @It shall not be compared with the dyed colours of India, or with the most precious stone sardonyx, or the sapphire.

drb@Job:28:17 @Gold or crystal cannot equal it, neither shall any vessels of gold be changed for it.

drb@Job:28:18 @High and eminent things shall not be mentioned in comparison of it: but wisdom is drawn out of secret places.

drb@Job:28:19 @The topaz of Ethiopia shall not be equal to it, neither shall it be compared to the cleanest dyeing.

drb@Job:28:20 @Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?

drb@Job:28:21 @It is hid from the eyes of all living. and the fowls of the air know it not.

drb@Job:28:22 @Destruction and death have said: With our ears we have heard the fame thereof.

drb@Job:28:23 @God understandeth the way of it, and he knoweth the place thereof.

drb@Job:28:24 @For he beholdeth the ends of the world: and looketh on all things that are under heaven.

drb@Job:28:25 @Who made a weight for the winds and weighed the waters by measure.

drb@Job:28:26 @When he gave a law for the rain, and a way for the sounding storms.

drb@Job:28:27 @Then he saw it, and declared, and prepared, and searched it.

drb@Job:28:28 @And he said to man: Behold the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom: and to depart from evil, is understanding.

drb@Job:29:1 @Job also added, taking up his parable, and said:

drb@Job:29:2 @Who will grant me, that I might be according to the months past, according to the days in which God kept me?

drb@Job:29:3 @When his lamp shined over my head, and I walked by his light in darkness?

drb@Job:29:4 @As I was in the days of my youth, when God was secretly in my tabernacle?

drb@Job:29:5 @When the Almighty was with me: and my servants round about me?

drb@Job:29:6 @When I washed my feet with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil?

drb@Job:29:7 @When I went out to the gate of the city, and in the street they prepared me a chair?

drb@Job:29:8 @The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the old men rose up and stood.

drb@Job:29:9 @The princes ceased to speak, and laid the finger on their mouth.

drb@Job:29:10 @The rulers held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to their throat.

drb@Job:29:11 @The ear that heard me blessed me, and the eye that saw me gave witness to me:

drb@Job:29:12 @Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the fatherless that had no helper.

drb@Job:29:13 @The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me, and I comforted the heart of the widow.

drb@Job:29:14 @I was clad with justice: and I clothed myself with my judgment, as with a robe and a diadem.

drb@Job:29:15 @I was an eye to the blind, and a foot to the lame.

drb@Job:29:16 @I was the father of the poor: and the cause which I knew not, I searched out most diligently.

drb@Job:29:17 @I broke the jaws of the wicked man, and out of his teeth I took away the prey

drb@Job:29:18 @And I said: I shall die in my nest, and as a palm tree shall multiply my days.

drb@Job:29:19 @My root is opened beside the waters, and dew shall continue in my harvest.

drb@Job:29:20 @My glory shall always be renewed, and my bow in my hand shall be repaired.

drb@Job:29:21 @They that heard me, waited for my sentence, and being attentive held their peace at my counsel.

drb@Job:29:22 @To my words they durst add nothing, and my speech dropped upon them.

drb@Job:29:23 @They waited for me as for rain, and they opened their mouth as for a latter shower.

drb@Job:29:24 @If at any time I laughed on them, they believed not, and the light of my countenance fell not on earth.

drb@Job:29:25 @If I had a mind to go to them, I sat first, and when I sat as a king, with his army standing about him, yet I was a comforter of them that mourned.

drb@Job:30:1 @But now the younger in time scorn me, whose fathers I would not have set with the dogs of my flock:

drb@Job:30:2 @The strength of whose hands was to me as nothing, and they were thought unworthy of life itself.

drb@Job:30:3 @Barren with want and hunger, who gnawed in the wilderness, disfigured with calamity and misery.

drb@Job:30:4 @And they ate grass, and barks of trees, and the root of junipers was their food.

drb@Job:30:5 @Who snatched up these things out of the valleys, and when they had found any of them, they ran to them with a cry.

drb@Job:30:6 @They dwelt in the desert places of torrents, and in caves of earth, or upon the gravel.

drb@Job:30:7 @They pleased themselves among these kind of things, and counted it delightful to be under the briers.

drb@Job:30:8 @The children of foolish and base men, and not appearing at all upon the earth.

drb@Job:30:9 @Now I am turned into their song, and am become their byword.

drb@Job:30:10 @They abhor me, and flee far from me, and are not afraid to spit in my face.

drb@Job:30:11 @For he hath opened his quiver, and hath afflicted me, and hath put a bridle into my mouth.

drb@Job:30:12 @At the right hand of my rising, my calamities forthwith arose: they have overthrown my feet, and have overwhelmed me with their paths as with waves.

drb@Job:30:13 @They have destroyed my ways, they have lain in wait against me, and they have prevailed, and there was none to help.

drb@Job:30:14 @They have rushed in upon me, as when a wall is broken, and a gate opened, and have rolled themselves down to my miseries.

drb@Job:30:15 @I am brought to nothing: as a wind thou hast taken away my desire: and my prosperity hath passed away like a cloud.

drb@Job:30:16 @And now my soul fadeth within myself, and the days of affliction possess me.

drb@Job:30:17 @In the night my bone is pierced with sorrows: and they that feed upon me, do not sleep.

drb@Job:30:18 @With the multitude of them my garment is consumed, and they have girded me about, as with the collar of my coat.

drb@Job:30:19 @I am compared to dirt, and am likened to embers and ashes

drb@Job:30:20 @I cry to thee, and thou hearest me not: I stand up, and thou dost not regard me.

drb@Job:30:21 @Thou art changed to be cruel toward me, and in the hardness of thy hand thou art against me.

drb@Job:30:22 @Thou hast lifted me up, and set me as it were upon the wind, and thou hast mightily dashed me.

drb@Job:30:23 @I know that thou wilt deliver me to death, where a house is appointed for every one that liveth.

drb@Job:30:24 @But yet thou stretchest not forth thy hand to their consumption: and if they shall fall down thou wilt save.

drb@Job:30:25 @I wept heretofore for him that was afflicted, and my soul had compassion on the poor.

drb@Job:30:26 @I expected good things, and evils are come upon me: I waited for light, and darkness broke out.

drb@Job:30:27 @My inner parts have boiled without any rest, the days of affliction have prevented me.

drb@Job:30:28 @I went mourning without indignation; I rose up, and cried in the crowd.

drb@Job:30:29 @I was the brother of dragons, and companion of ostriches.

drb@Job:30:30 @My skin is become black upon me, and my bones are dried up with heat.

drb@Job:30:31 @My harp is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of those that weep.

drb@Job:31:1 @I made a covenant with my eyes, that I would not so much as think upon a virgin.

drb@Job:31:2 @For what part should God from above have in me, and what inheritance the Almighty from on high?

drb@Job:31:3 @Is not destruction to the wicked, and aversion to them that work iniquity?

drb@Job:31:4 @Doth not he consider my ways, and number all my steps?

drb@Job:31:5 @If I have walked in vanity, and my foot hath made haste to deceit:

drb@Job:31:6 @Let him weigh me in a just balance, and let God know my simplicity.

drb@Job:31:7 @If my step hath turned out of the way, and if my heart hath followed my eyes, and if a spot hath cleaved to my hands:

drb@Job:31:8 @Then let me sow and let another eat: and let my offspring be rooted out.

drb@Job:31:9 @If my heart hath been deceived upon a woman, and if I have laid wait at my friend's door:

drb@Job:31:10 @Let my wife be the harlot of another, and let other men lie with her.

drb@Job:31:11 @For this is a heinous crime, and a most grievous iniquity.

drb@Job:31:12 @It is a fire that devoureth even to destruction, and rooteth up all things that spring.

drb@Job:31:13 @If I have despised to abide judgment with my manservant, or my maidservant, when they had any controversy against me:

drb@Job:31:14 @For what shall I do when God shall rise to judge? and when he shall examine, what shall I answer him?

drb@Job:31:15 @Did not he that made me in the womb make him also: and did not one and the same form me in the womb?

drb@Job:31:16 @If I have denied to the poor what they desired, and have made the eyes of the widow wait:

drb@Job:31:17 @If I have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof:

drb@Job:31:18 @(For from my infancy mercy grew up with me: and it came out with me from my mother's womb:)

drb@Job:31:19 @If I have despised him that was perishing for want of clothing, and the poor man that had no covering:

drb@Job:31:20 @If his sides have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep:

drb@Job:31:21 @If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw myself superior in the gate:

drb@Job:31:22 @Let my shoulder fall from its joint, and let my arm with its bones be broken.

drb@Job:31:23 @For I have always feared God as waves swelling over me, and his weight I was not able to bear.

drb@Job:31:24 @If I have thought gold my strength, and have said to fine gold: My confidence:

drb@Job:31:25 @If I have rejoiced over my great riches, and because my hand had gotten much.

drb@Job:31:26 @If I beheld the sun when it shined, and the moon going in brightness:

drb@Job:31:27 @And my heart in secret hath rejoiced, and I have kissed my hand with my mouth:

drb@Job:31:28 @Which is a very great iniquity, and a denial against the most high God.

drb@Job:31:29 @If I have been glad at the downfall of him that hated me, and have rejoiced that evil had found him.

drb@Job:31:30 @For I have not given my mouth to sin, by wishing a curse to his soul.

drb@Job:31:31 @If the men of my tabernacle have not said: Who will give us of his flesh that we may be filled?

drb@Job:31:32 @The stranger did not stay without, my door was open to the traveller.

drb@Job:31:33 @If as a man I have hid my sin, and have concealed my iniquity in my bosom.

drb@Job:31:34 @If I have been afraid at a very great multitude, and the contempt of kinsmen hath terrified me: and I have not rather held my peace, and not gone out of the door.

drb@Job:31:35 @Who would grant me a hearer, that the Almighty may hear my desire; and that he himself that judgeth would write a book,

drb@Job:31:36 @That I may carry it on my shoulder, and put it about me as a crown?

drb@Job:31:37 @At every step of mine I would pronounce it, and offer it as to a prince.

drb@Job:31:38 @If my land cry against me, and with it the furrows thereof mourn:

drb@Job:31:39 @If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have afflicted the soul of the tillers thereof:

drb@Job:31:40 @Let thistles grow up to me instead of wheat, and thorns instead of barley.

drb@Job:32:1 @So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he seemed just to himself.